Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Taking exception to the present conference in London as an act of French desperation, Donald C. McKay, instructor in History, said in an interview yesterday that France was rapidly facing complete "eclipse" as a first class nation...
...Philippine infantry troops parading to celebrate the Commonwealth's second anniversary, President Quezon said grandly to U. S. High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt: "This army that has paraded before us, sir, is not only the Philippine Army, it is your Army because under the Independence Act the President of the United States, whom you represent, has power to call it out in defense of the American flag and also because the Filipino people would gladly do so in recognition of what you have done...
When the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 was approved by Congress last summer it established a U. S. Maritime Commission, empowered it to manage U. S. shipping and to investigate and report upon the shape of things to come. Fortnight ago, Commission Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy presented such a reckoning (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week he made another report, not on sea ships but on the relation of sea ships to airships. To many a landlubber the second report may seem like a Utopian dream, except that it also bears the earmarks of Joe Kennedy's hard-headed eagerness...
Principal changes were in the last act, which Shaw cut to a third of its length, almost completely rewrote. What made the London audience sit up was not the clatter of the Shavian blank verse but a sly passage whose political patness even the dullest Britisher could...
...with associates controls Park & Tilford. In 1926 Schulte Retail earned over $6,000,000 on total assets of a little more than $40,000,000. And yet in 1936, though its customers were smoking more furiously than ever, Schulte Retail Stores filed for reorganization under the Bankruptcy Act. Reason was Mr. Schulte's tendency to lease too much real estate. In his 47 years in the cigar store business Mr. Schulte has developed an uncontrollable passion for corner sites. In 1925 he paid $6,000,000 for a corner in Manhattan's Times Square, put a shop...